Best Puzzles
The award for Best Puzzles recognizes the game with the most well-crafted, clever, and appropriate puzzles. It has also been given since 1996.
- 2011: PataNoir by Simon Christiansen
- Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis by Adam Thornton
- The Race by Andy Why
- Zombie Exodus by Jim Dattilo
- 2010: Aotearoa by Matt Wigdahl
- Dual Transform by Andrew Plotkin
- Fragile Shells by Stephen Granade
- One Eye Open by Colin Sandel and Carolyn VanEseltine
- The People's Glorious Revolutionary Text Adventure Game by Taylor Vaughan
- 2009: Earl Grey by Rob Dubbin and Adam Parrish
- Broken Legs by Sarah Morayati
- Make it Good by Jon Ingold
- The Duel That Spanned the Ages by Oliver Ullmann
- Rover's Day Out by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman
- 2008: Gun Mute by C. E. J. Pacian
- Escapade! by Juhana Leinonen
- Piracy 2.0 by Sean Huxter
- Violet by Jeremy Freese
- 2007: Suveh Nux by David Fisher
- An Act of Murder by Christopher Huang
- Child's Play by Stephen Granade
- The Chinese Room by Harry Giles and Joey Jones
- Lost Pig by Admiral Jota
- 2006: Delightful Wallpaper by Andrew Plotkin
- Moebius by J. D. Clemens
- The Elysium Enigma by Eric Eve
- The Traveling Swordsman by Mike Snyder
- The Warlord, The Princess & The Bulldog by David Whyld
- 2005: Distress by Mike Snyder
- Building by Mike Tullock
- Cheiron by Sarah Clelland and Elisabeth Polli
- Finding Martin by Gayla Wennstrom
- Vespers by Jason Devlin
- 2004: The Dreamhold by Andrew Plotkin
- All Things Devours by "half sick of shadows"
- Future Boy! by Kent Tessman
- Goose, Egg, Badger by Brian Rapp
- Square Circle by Eric Eve
- 2003: Gourmet by Aaron Reed
- Inevitable by Kathleen M. Fischer
- Risorgimento Represso by Michael J. Coyne
- Scavenger by Quintin Stone
- The Erudition Chamber by Daniel Freas
- 2002: Savoir Faire by Emily Short
- Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky by Paul O'Brian
- Lock & Key by Adam Cadre
- Out of the Study by Anssi Raisanen
- Tookie's Song by Jessica Knoch
- 2001: First Things First by J. Robinson Wheeler
- Degeneracy by Leonard Richardson
- The Gostak by Carl Muckenhoupt
- Stiffy Makane: The Undiscovered Country by Adam Thornton
- Vicious Cycles by Simon Mark
- The Weapon by Sean Barrett
- 2000: Ad Verbum by Nick Montfort
- Augmented Fourth by Brian Uri
- Dinner with Andre by Liza Daly
- The End Means Escape by Stephen Kodat
- Heroine's Mantle by Andy Phillips
- Metamorphoses by Emily Short
- Nevermore by Nate Cull
- 1999: The Mulldoon Legacy by Jon Ingold
- Lunatix: The Insanity Circle by Mike Snyder
- Not Just an Ordinary Ballerina by Jim Aiken
- Varicella by Adam Cadre
- Worlds Apart by Suzanne Britton
- 1998: Spider and Web by Andrew Plotkin
- Anchorhead by Michael Gentry
- Enlightenment by Taro Ogawa
- Losing Your Grip by Stephen Granade
- Once and Future by G. Kevin Wilson
- 1997: The Edifice by Lucian P. Smith
- Babel by Ian Finley
- Everybody Loves a Parade by Cody Sandifer
- Heist by Andy Phillips
- Zero Sum Game by Cody Sandifer
- 1996: So Far by Andrew Plotkin
- Frobozz Magic Support by Nate Cull
- Lost New York by Neil deMause
- The Meteor, the Stone, and a Long Glass of Sherbet by Graham Nelson
- Time: All Things Come to an End by Andy Phillips
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